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Exodus 16:6

Exodus 16:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

At even, then ye shall know. See and . The first evidence which the Israelites would have, that God had heard 'and considered their complaints, would be the descent of the quails at even of the day on which Moses and Aaron addressed them.

That the Lord hath brought you out—i.e; "that it is not we who, to gratify our own personal ambition, have induced you to quit Egypt under our guidance; but that all which we have done has been to act as God's instruments, and to carry out his designs."

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